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Towards the early modern separation of disciplines: From philology to science and history--Joseph Justus Scaliger
; JOESPH SCALIGER. A STUDY IN THE HISTORY...Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Joseph Scaliger is chiefly remembered...Isaac Casaubon and Justus Lipsius. Thought of...Concentrating on the figure of Scaliger, Anthony Grafton has...emendatione temporum (1583), Scaliger briefly lets us ...
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; ...German translation of Julius Caesar Scaliger's favorite work suggests that...Sigonio, Christopher Clavius, J.J. Scaliger, and others is quickly extending...are altogether more complicated. Scaliger's Poetics unquestionably ranks...then passed without word from Scaliger that de Maumont feared the ...
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`MEASURE OF REALITY' EXAMINES PLUMB LINE OF MODERN CULTURE.(Lifestyle)(Review)
; ...people who drift in and out of the story you've never heard of and will never remember, like John Sacrobosco, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Johannes Schoener, Matt-haeus Schwartz and Richard Swines-head (to choose only those beginning with ``s''; there...
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The measurements that remade the world
; ...people who drift in and out of the story you've never heard of and will never remember, like John Sacrobosco, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Johannes Schoener, Matthaeus Schwartz and Richard Swineshead (to choose only those beginning with "s"; there...
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WHAT ON EARTH? 01/01/01 or What?
; ...Julian Calendar. It assigns a number to each day, starting in 4713 BC, and was worked out by French scientist Joseph Justus Scaliger.) Islamic: 5 Shawwal 1421 (Based on the movement of the moon around Earth.) Hebrew: 6 Teveth 5761 (A combined...
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questions & answers That glazed expression is your cue to change the subject
; ...events are stated in terms of the so-called Julian Date (JD), a decimal time system invented by the French scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger in 1582. This converts all times to the number of days (and fractions thereof) that have elapsed since noon GMT...
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